We live next to a block of flats and today I was getting my son in the car and suddenly heard a woman screaming loudly, fear screams, followed by a man shouting loudly. I've occasionally heard screaming before but thought it was children playing as balcony doors were closed and there's two young children living there (one looks low primary age and other is a toddler).
For context, the other week, the man who lives there was at his balcony and shouted at me to "keep the noise down" while I was getting my children in the car. I wasn't making any particular loud noises, neither were my children but as soon as my husband came out the door he looked surprised.
Today I asked two teenage boys who live in the flats if they ever heard any noise and they said they frequently hear a woman screaming and a man shouting throughout the night and day, but not early morning. I'm guessing from all this that there's some sort of abuse going on but I don't know how to approach it.
If I call the police, what if the lady denies anything out of fear and then her partner takes it out in her? Do I approach the lady in question? What do I do in this situation?